ATLANTA — In the present day, The Carter Middle and the world have fun the one hundredth birthday of former President Jimmy Carter. Because the longest-living U.S. president in historical past, he stands as a beacon of management and compassion, inspiring individuals across the globe.

Born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter has devoted his life to service, integrity, and human rights. Early in life, he was an energetic member of his beloved Plains neighborhood alongside his spouse, Rosalynn, whom he married in 1946. He was elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1962 and served as Georgia’s 76^th governor from 1971 to 1975. He grew to become the thirty ninth president of the US in 1977 and held that workplace for 4 years. President Carter’s dedication to advancing human rights and peace globally was evident via his overseas coverage accomplishments and home initiatives.

In 1982, President and Mrs. Carter based The Carter Middle, a nonprofit group devoted to bettering lives by advancing democracy, resolving conflicts, and eliminating preventable ailments. The Carter Middle has grow to be a number one international well being and human rights group that has positively impacted over 80 nations. The Middle pioneered election statement, deploying 125 missions, and has supported the elimination of uncared for tropical ailments in 22 nations. It continues to innovate, together with by demonstrating how entry to well being companies can pave the best way to sustainable peace.

On Sept. 17, The Carter Middle hosted a star-studded live performance occasion at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theatre to honor the music-loving former president. “Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Music” introduced collectively greater than 4,000 of President Carter’s members of the family, buddies, and largest followers. Georgia Public Broadcasting will air a recording of the live performance at 7 p.m. EDT right this moment and at different instances all through October. The present additionally might be considered on demand at gpb.org/jimmycarter100.

To assist have fun President Carter’s centennial, The Carter Middle encourages buddies and supporters from world wide to contribute to a digital mosaic. Thus far, practically 5,000 individuals have submitted photographs and tributes, many remarking on how he has impressed them via his distinctive life and work.

President Carter’s legacy continues to encourage hope and progress worldwide. His century of life is a testomony to the ability of service, and The Carter Middle stands as a permanent reminder of his dedication to peace, well being, and human rights.

Excessive-resolution photographs can be found for obtain right here.

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Waging Peace. Combating Illness. Constructing Hope.

A not-for-profit, nongovernmental group, The Carter Middle has helped to enhance life for individuals in over 80 nations by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and financial alternative; stopping ailments; and bettering psychological well being care. The Carter Middle was based in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Girl Rosalynn Carter, in partnership with Emory College, to advance peace and well being worldwide.

NEW YORK (AP) — A “ring of fireside” eclipse of the solar is coming. However solely a fortunate few will probably be within the path.

The annular photo voltaic eclipsewill probably be seen Wednesday over Easter Island and the ideas of Argentina and Chile.

Right here’s the right way to safely watch the ultimate photo voltaic spectacle of the 12 months.

What’s an annular photo voltaic eclipse?

Photo voltaic eclipses occur when the solar, moon and Earth line up simply so. The moon casts a shadow that may partially or completely block the solar’s gentle.

Throughout an annular eclipse, the moon obscures all however a ring-shaped sliver of the solar. That’s as a result of the moon is at some extent in its orbit that’s farther from Earth.

“The moon is simply not fairly large enough to cowl the solar,” mentioned Carolyn Sumners on the Houston Museum of Pure Science.

This eclipse will happen principally over water within the Pacific. Rapa Nui, often known as Easter Island, is within the path together with components of Argentina and Chile.

A partial photo voltaic eclipse, when the solar seems as a crescent, will be seen from a number of areas together with Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Hawaii.

Photo voltaic eclipses occur about two to 5 occasions a 12 months. April’s complete eclipse of the solar dazzled skywatchers in components of Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

How do I safely take a look at a photo voltaic eclipse?

Trying straight on the solar may cause eye harm, even when most of it’s coated.

The annular eclipse is protected to identify sporting photo voltaic eclipse glasses, which block out ultraviolet gentle from the solar and practically all seen gentle. Sun shades or binoculars received’t reduce it.

Glasses ought to say they adjust to ISO 12312-2 requirements, although faux suppliers may also record this on their merchandise.

If you happen to don’t have eclipse glasses, you may nonetheless benefit from the spectacle not directly. Make a pinhole projector utilizing family supplies or maintain up a colander and look all the way down to see a picture of the eclipse projected under.

Peering on the floor beneath a shady tree may also reveal crescent shadows as the daylight filters via branches and leaves.

What’s coming subsequent?

Two partial photo voltaic eclipses will grace the skies subsequent 12 months in March and September.

The subsequent complete photo voltaic eclipse received’t arrive till 2026 and can go over the northern fringes of Greenland, Iceland and Spain.

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CVS Well being stated Monday that it’ll lay off about 2,900 individuals amid stress from buyers to chop prices and enhance its monetary efficiency. And extra dramatic modifications might be coming quickly.

A spokesperson for the well being care large, which has lengthy been based mostly in Woonsocket, R.I., and operates well being insurer Aetna in Hartford, confirmed the cuts, which is able to primarily fall on company roles. Late Monday, information service Reuters reported that the corporate is contemplating a fair greater transfer — splitting its pharmacy chain and its insurance coverage enterprise — although no closing choices have been made.

A spokesperson declined remark to Reuters on a possible breakup, however did verify the layoffs to the Globe, saying they have been a part of a $2 billion cost-cutting plan designed to enhance the corporate’s monetary efficiency. The job cuts can be companywide, “not remoted to a single company workplace or state,” the spokesperson stated, and quantity to lower than 1 p.c of the corporate’s headcount.

CVS Well being is shedding roughly 2,900 staff throughout its firm and impacted positions are “primarily company roles,” Mike DeAngelis, govt director of company communications, confirmed to USA TODAY Tuesday.

“Our trade faces continued disruption, regulatory pressures, and evolving buyer wants and expectations, so it’s vital that we stay aggressive and function at peak efficiency,” DeAngelis stated in an emailed assertion to USA TODAY.

DeAngelis additionally stated within the assertion that the corporate “prioritized value financial savings all over the place we may, together with closing open job postings,” earlier than making the choice, and likewise stated the layoffs “is not going to influence front-line jobs in our shops, pharmacies, and distribution facilities.”

“Choices on which positions to get rid of had been extraordinarily tough,” DeAngelis stated, noting that the departing staff will obtain severance pay and advantages. The layoffs signify lower than 1% of the corporate’s workforce, DeAngelis stated.

Investigation:CVS pharmacist’s loss of life turns into cautionary story of crushing stress at work

CVS Well being had one other spherical of layoffs final 12 months

CVS Well being additionally eradicated about 5,000 “non customer-facing” positions in an effort to cut back prices in 2023.

The cuts represented lower than 2% of the corporate’s whole workforce, which comprised of roughly 300,000 staff on the finish of 2022.

“Our trade is evolving to adapt to new client well being wants and expectations. As a part of an enterprise initiative to reprioritize our investments round care supply and know-how, we should take tough steps to cut back bills,” the corporate instructed USA TODAY in 2023.

Earlier in 2023, the corporate accomplished a $10.6 billion deal to purchase Oak Avenue Well being, an organization that runs main care facilities for lower-to-middle revenue individuals with Medicare Benefit plans, that are privately run variations of the federal authorities’s program for individuals aged 65 and older.

With the acquisition, CVS Well being deliberate to capitalize on the federal authorities’s curiosity in reducing prices and bettering the well being of individuals in its Medicare program.

“This settlement with CVS Well being will speed up our capacity to ship on our mission and proceed bettering well being outcomes, reducing medical prices, and offering a greater affected person expertise whereas providing important worth to our shareholders,” Oak Avenue Well being CEO Mike Pykosz stated on the the time of the deal.

Gabe Hauari is a nationwide trending information reporter at USA TODAY. You possibly can observe him on X @GabeHauari or e-mail him at Gdhauari@gannett.com.

Frank Fritz, a part of a two-man crew who drove across the U.S. searching for antiques and collectibles to purchase and resell on the truth present “American Pickers,” has died.

He died Monday night time at a hospice facility in Davenport, Iowa, mentioned Annette Oberlander, a longtime pal. She mentioned he was 60, not 58, as some web sites and information sources mentioned.

She mentioned she was at his bedside, as was Mike Wolfe, who starred with Fritz for greater than a decade on the Historical past Channel program.

“The identical off digital camera as he was on, Frank had a means of reaching the hearts of so many by simply being himself,” Wolfe mentioned an Instagram publish mourning the lack of his pal.

In American Pickers, Fritz and Wolfe visited primarily small cities and rural areas looking for gadgets. They usually would crawl by dusty barns and crowded garages, flashlight in hand to dig out gadgets that they might resell at an vintage store in Iowa.

Fritz usually was drawn to vintage toys, and he would banter in a good-natured means with sellers as they sought to reach at a value.

Sometimes they’d encounter extra notable finds, corresponding to a dilapidated van within the woods of a small Massachusetts city that the band Aerosmith toured in earlier than they began filling stadiums with tens of 1000’s of followers.

Oberlander mentioned Fritz had a stroke in 2022 and by no means absolutely recovered. She mentioned a celebration of life, which is able to embrace a motorbike run, will doubtless occur within the spring.

“He was a fierce pal,” Oberlander mentioned. “He leaves behind an unbelievable quantity of friendships as a result of that’s what was most essential to him. A really great amount of friendships. Shut friendships.”

1995 Disappearance 

Billy Jack Lincks

New improvement

ALMA, Ark. — At a press convention Tuesday morning, the Alma Police Division reported a improvement in its investigation into the 1995 kidnapping of 6-year-old Morgan Nick from a Little League ballfield.

DNA matching Morgan’s mom Colleen Nick, certainly one of her siblings, or certainly one of her kids was confirmed to be discovered within the automobile of an early suspect in Morgan’s kidnapping.

Morgan was kidnapped from the car parking zone of the Alma Little League ballfield at roughly 10:45 p.m. on June 9, 1995. An outline of the suspect was offered, as was the outline of a pink truck with a white camper shell that was allegedly concerned.

Alma Police detectives, in cooperation with native, state, and federal regulation enforcement officers, have spent hundreds of hours investigating greater than 10,000 leads. That investigation continues to today.

One of many early individuals of curiosity was Billy Jack Lincks, a resident of Van Buren, Ark. Lincks was arrested on Aug. 29, 1995 — roughly 12 weeks after Morgan’s disappearance — for sexual solicitation of a kid. Lincks used his pink truck through the offense. Police questioned Lincks concerning Morgan on Aug. 31, 1995. He denied any information of Morgan’s abduction and gave the impression to be truthful. Investigators moved on.

In July 2019, Alma Police detectives started reviewing the early levels of the investigation. In doing so, their consideration was drawn, as soon as once more, to Billy Jack Lincks. They positioned the truck he owned in 1995, which had been offered a number of instances within the following years. The present proprietor of the truck was not acquainted with Lincks and permitted detectives to conduct an in-depth examination of the automobile for proof.

On July 28, 2020, the FBI Proof Response Staff examined the truck. Among the many assortment strategies the crew used was that of vacuuming numerous areas throughout the automobile. In doing so, they produced a number of “vacuum canisters” containing numerous types of matter, together with hair. The FBI retained custody of the proof.

In July 2023, Alma Police Detective Shawn Taylor realized of superior evaluation processes out there at Othram Laboratory, based mostly in Texas. Detective Taylor retrieved proof collected from the truck by the FBI and, on Dec. 1, 2023, submitted it to Othram Laboratory for evaluation.

On Sept. 27, 2024, Othram Laboratory despatched a report back to Detective Taylor, stating, in essence, that they decided that hair contained within the proof he submitted for evaluation was that of Colleen Nick, certainly one of her siblings, or certainly one of her kids.

Observe-up interviews of members of the Nick household revealed that none of them knew Billy Jack Lincks and that none of them had ever been in his truck.

Bodily proof collected from the truck that Lincks owned when Morgan was kidnapped strongly signifies that Morgan had been in his truck.

Billy Jack Lincks died within the 12 months 2000. Morgan Nick remains to be lacking. Alma Police detectives have reached some extent the place they will consider a single suspect to find out the circumstances surrounding Morgan’s abduction.

“A military of supporters, advocates and heroes have rallied to uncover the reality about her disappearance,” mentioned Colleen Nick, Morgan’s mom.

“He stole Morgan from me, her dad, Logan and Taryn. He didn’t see that he may by no means win. As a result of our love for Morgan – her reminiscence, her voice – outlasted his life. And that love continues to shine. Morgan’s coronary heart shines on.”

Alma Police asks that anybody with data that might assist resolve this case, please name the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

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NEW YORK — Lengthy earlier than Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV exhibits ever took off, she discovered herself at an airport, desirous to study to fly.

It was the late Sixties and he or she was a newlywed in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She and her soldier-husband, Jeffrey, would usually cross a small personal airport and Garten was intrigued.

She marched into the terminal to search out out about taking flying classes. “I’m actually sorry,” the man on the desk advised her, “however we don’t have anyone who’ll train a woman how you can fly.”

Do you assume that stopped Ina Garten?

The story of how she refused to budge till she received classes in a cockpit is included in her new memoir, “Be Prepared When the Luck Occurs,” which distills tales from her life into classes for foodies and non-foodies, alike.

“I wished it to be enjoyable to learn as a result of in any other case no one would learn this,” she tells The Related Press. “I wished it to be tales from my life, however I additionally wished every story to have some extent — in the way in which you might take a recipe away and make a chocolate cake, I would like you to take the thought away and have the ability to use it in your life.”

The memoir — written with assist from author Deborah Davis — is full of tales of Garten pushing for her imaginative and prescient, not least when in 1978 she noticed an advert in The New York Occasions and on a whim purchased just a little specialty meals retailer within the Hamptons referred to as Barefoot Contessa.

On the time, she was 30, writing insurance policies on nuclear vitality on the White Home and had by no means labored in meals, exterior of re-selling Dunkin’ Donuts to hungry college students in her dorm room in school.

“It sounded just a little loopy, however I used to be out of my thoughts with pleasure. I did not know if it will be the most effective choice or the worst mistake I ever made,” she writes of the shop, named after a 1954 Ava Gardner film however completely summing up her philosophy of each elegant and earthy.

Garten would, in fact, flip it into a worldwide, inviting model due to her eager eye for high quality and dedication to sourcing the best components. She additionally put within the lengthy hours, studying every dish and even sleeping within the retailer.

“The method of writing the e-book actually sort of gave me confidence that this wasn’t simply luck — that I had truly labored actually onerous for it with willpower and imaginative and prescient,” she says “I caught with what I wished. And my life has turned out so a lot better than I may have even dreamed.”

Followers know a lot of her story already since her cookbooks are stuffed with private anecdotes, however they could not learn about her chilly childhood in Connecticut.

She describes her father as abusive at occasions, a person who advised her when she was 15 that nobody would ever love her. Her mom was distant and used meals as a supply of management, serving broiled hen or fish with canned peas and carrots. “I spent my youth looking — no, begging — for taste,” she writes.

That early nightmare helped her down the street. “My childhood, as a result of it was so painful, it gave me monumental empathy for individuals,” she says. That meant she may learn clients, placing herself of their sneakers.

Readers may even study for the primary time about her six-month separation from Jeffrey, which took them to the brink of divorce. Their relationship has these days been heralded on social media — #couplegoals or #relationshipgoals — as an excellent partnership, however Gartner reveals it took work.

After discovering her new profession path, Garten rebelled on the conventional home chores anticipated of her — cooking, cleansing, purchasing, managing. “After I purchased Barefoot Contessa, I shattered our conventional roles — took a baseball bat to them and left them in items,” she writes. Following a while aside, the couple agreed to satisfy one another midway.

“There are classes that any reader can discover all through, particularly about persistence and trusting your self and your instincts and likewise taking possibilities,” says Gillian Blake, government vp, writer and editor-in-chief of Crown & Foreign money.

“I feel there’s a thematic resonance between the way in which she’s taught individuals how you can cook dinner and the way in which she teases out these inspirational classes for bigger life questions.”

Garten could also be recognized for her approachability, however she admits to having a cussed streak — “a barrier to me isn’t a cease signal; it’s a name to motion,” she writes — and he or she isn’t a blushing flower. She as soon as labored within the backroom of a strip membership.

She writes that she confronted off each a robber at gunpoint who wished $50 and a financial institution officer who wouldn’t make a mortgage to her enterprise as a result of she was a lady and sure would quickly have infants.

There are additionally lighter tales a couple of memorable lunch with Mel Brooks, and assembly Elmo, Jennifer Garner and Taylor Swift, plus a boozy story of taking part in beer bong with soccer star Abby Wambach.

There are sensible classes — like standing up for your self, even when it’s onerous or taking a danger. Discover only one one who actually believes in you, she argues.

“People who find themselves well-known and profitable aren’t there as a result of they’re smarter, extra inventive. It’s as a result of they hit a wall they usually simply stated, ‘I don’t even see the wall. I’m going to get across the wall. I actually need to do that and I’m going to determine it out,’” she says.

“One factor I discovered by doing the e-book, which shocked me, is I had much more braveness than I assumed I had. And I spotted that these issues that I did with braveness have been the making of my life.”

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Basis fellows contains extra writers, artists and storytellers than in years previous, although the so-called “genius grants” record additionally contains a number of scientists.

The interdisciplinary awards introduced Tuesday include a $800,000 grant over 5 years that the 22 recipients — together with fiction author Ling Ma, poet and author Juan Felipe Herrera, cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond and visible artist Ebony G. Patterson — might use nevertheless they need.

Nominees are thought of over the course of years, really useful by their friends, vetted by the muse and reviewed by an impartial advisory board, whose membership modifications over time. Whereas every class isn’t an instantaneous response to any explicit second, typically themes do emerge, mentioned Marlies Carruth, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program.

“We now have to see no less than the variability and the energy and the variety of nominations within the literary arts area as a response to the zeitgeist, the need to inform tales and resurrect sure tales that haven’t been informed,” mentioned Carruth.

It’s not doable to use for the award, and the muse asks recommenders and friends to not inform the particular person nominated that they’re into account.

“Most of them perceive the worth of of the discretion, of the secrecy,” Carruth mentioned, talking of the nominators. The confidentiality additionally permits them to be very trustworthy, she mentioned.

Due to this secrecy, it may be exhausting for the muse to truly attain the recipients.

Jason Reynolds, the youngsters and younger grownup author and former Nationwide Ambassador for Younger Folks’s Literature, mentioned he was grateful and overwhelmed when he lastly did reply the decision.

“I had simply gotten again from taking good care of my mother on the hospital,” he mentioned. “There’s like all this actual life stuff taking place, that’s tremendous intense and pressured and heavy. And there’s a telephone name that simply retains coming by.”

Reynolds mentioned he was nonetheless occupied with what the award will imply for his work, which incorporates the “Observe” sequence in addition to comedian books and different style crossing work that usually replicate the experiences of Black kids. On Oct. 8, his past love story, the younger grownup novel, “Twenty-4 Seconds from Now…” a few Black boy’s first sexual relationship, will publish.

“Boys are by no means requested, it’s by no means even thought of, that we have now emotions round this second feeling, proper? Not simply organic wishes,” he mentioned.

The muse appears for individuals who will likely be “enabled” by the award, which means they’ve each a observe file of labor but in addition the potential to provide extra extraordinary work, Carruth mentioned. Additionally they are excited to assist individuals who collaborate and make investments exterior of their particular self-discipline.

Nicola Dell, a pc and data scientist at Cornell Tech, needed to credit score her many collaborators, college students and group teams which have labored along with her to analysis how know-how can be utilized to harass and abuse folks and to develop instruments to assist survivors of such abuse.

“It’s teamwork, not simply mine,” she mentioned, whereas additionally saying it was an unimaginable vote of confidence to obtain the award. She co-founded the Clinic to Finish Tech Abuse, which consults with people who find themselves stalked or harassed by intimate companions to assist them each escape surveillance and to soundly use applied sciences to use for jobs and housing, for instance.

Dell mentioned she has tried to serve “as a bridge between the social companies, mainly shelters, nonprofits, people who find themselves very far-off from huge tech firms and the designers and groups and people tech firms which might be liable for these merchandise and for controlling these merchandise.”

Astronomer Keivan G. Stassun, professor at Vanderbilt College, research, amongst different issues, the evolution of stars however he has additionally been a champion of recruiting and together with various college students in science. He mentioned he had chosen to be at dwelling when the announcement was made.

Stassun co-founded a joint program to recruit and put together various college students to get superior levels in science at Vanderbilt and Fisk College, a traditionally Black college. Extra lately, he based a middle to assist neurodiverse folks discover jobs and assist firms rent them. One in every of his kids is autistic and he talked about being a mum or dad trying to his youngster’s future and his motivation to enhance the lives of neurodiverse adults.

“Science is determined by entry to the total human variety of thoughts to to make the mysteries of the cosmos comprehensible and knowable and expressible in human phrases,” Stassun mentioned. “It’s actually true that within the day-to-day and the practicalities of doing the work of astrophysical discoveries on one hand and of constructing pipelines for human expertise on the opposite, yeah, these two issues of their operation require a special set of expertise and an funding of time and care. However I actually do see one very a lot in service of the opposite.”

He expressed immense delight within the work of the scholars who graduate from the Fisk-Vanderbilt Grasp’s-to-PhD Bridge Program, which he mentioned is without doubt one of the main producers of Black, Hispanic and Native American doctoral college students within the bodily sciences.

“That’s one thing,” he mentioned.

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